He said: “I did graphic design at Cardonald College and it was useful.

“But I knew I’d do something a bit different.

“Even as a young kid, I had a key for the art class in primary school and that’s where I’d spend all my time.

“I worked for 13 years with the BBC in the special effects department and it was great because you did something different every day.

“You could be doing the dry ice for Top of the Pops one minute and then something much more dramatic the next.

“But I always had more of an interest in the arty farty stuff and I liked creating things.

“It might be unusual but it’s a dream job.

“I’m not in an office bored to tears and it doesn’t feel like a real job to me.”

With his own firm Corpse Hire, Paul has made a living doing the most innovative things.

It’s not just dead bodies, he also does pyrotechnics and make-up.

He made parts for the Batmobile, designed the legendary 1980s Buck Rogers Burger Station theme restaurant in Glasgow’s Queen Street and his first job was making a soapbox spitfire for the Russ Abbot show in the mid-80s.

Growing up in the 1970s, Lynda Carter was a childhood crush of his when she played Wonder Woman.

So he was bowled over when he was asked to make the bodies for a corpse-strewn battlefield in the modern day mega movie last year.